Trent Reinsmith
- Date & Location: Tuesday, November 16 at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, NV
- Odds: Vegas Golden Knights (+107) vs. Carolina Hurricanes (-118) via Sportsbetting.
- Prediction: Hurricanes to beat Golden Knights
The Metropolitan Division leading Carolina Hurricanes travel to Las Vegas for Tuesday’s NHL game against the Vegas Golden Knights.
The Hurricanes opened the 2021-22 NHL season with a nine-game winning streak. What made the run even more noteworthy was that Carolina won all those games in regulation time. The Hurricanes are on a 2-2 stretch heading to Vegas. The ‘Canes are coming off a 3-2 win over the St. Louis Blues on Saturday.
Vegas had a rough start to the season. The club went 1-4 in its first five games, but it seems as if the Golden Knights have righted the ship. Vegas is on a three-game winning streak and coming off their highest scoring game of the year, a 7-4 win over the Vancouver Canucks on Saturday.
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Carolina Hurricanes Analysis
With 13 games played this season, the Hurricanes are the No. 10 team in goals scored with 45. On the defensive side of the puck, Carolina has allowed fewer goals than any other team in the league at 25. No NHL team has a lower goals against average (1.88) or save percentage (.932%) than the Hurricanes. The Hurricanes have also allowed the second-fewest shots on goal with 368, which puts them three behind NHL leading Boston.
The Hurricanes leading scorer is Andrei Svechnikov. The winger has scored 17 points (7 goals, 10 assists), which is good enough to put him in the top-10 in scoring in the league.
Seabass wasn't missing from there 🎯 pic.twitter.com/dcFmPPAJIe
— Carolina Hurricanes (@Canes) November 14, 2021
Frederik Andersen, the Hurricanes starting netminder, has a GAA of 1.77 and a SV% of .938. He leads the NHL in GAA and is top-five in SV%.
Carolina is 5-1 on the road this season.
Vegas Golden Knights Analysis
The Golden Knights have improved in their past 10 games. The team is on an 8-2-0 run and averaging 3.6 goals per game and gives up 2.6 goals per game. That the team has gotten back on track with the injuries it has to its top players should raise some alarms across the NHL.
Chandler Stephenson is leading the Vegas Knights in scoring with 15 points (5G, 10A). Stephenson was expected to be a second-line player this year, but injuries have forced him to step up and he has delivered. Stephenson scored 35 points last season in 51 games.
1⃣0⃣0⃣ goals for Jonathan Marchessault in a @GoldenKnights sweater. He became the first player in franchise history to do so.#NHLStats: https://t.co/bQq4zywIRa pic.twitter.com/FGIPc2kNo7
— NHL Public Relations (@PR_NHL) November 14, 2021
Robin Lehner is the starting goalie for the Golden Knights. He has a 2.83 GAA and a .918 SV%
Vegas is 5-3-0 at home this season.
MyTopSportsbook’s Final Pick
The Golden Knights have been impressive as of late, but I think they will struggle to get shots on net against the Hurricanes and that will hurt the team on the scoreboard. Vegas needs to put up decent numbers to win games. The club has allowed two or more goals in its past five games. It cannot allow that many goals against the Hurricanes, who have limited opponents to two or fewer goals eight times this year.
Carolina is the better team on both sides of the ice and with that, the pick is the Hurricanes to defeat the Golden Knights.
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